Chapter 3- Family Ties

"It's all over the news Deadly Beast Captured, All's Well in Mystic Falls."

"Why would you cover your tracks?"

"I've decide to stay a while. I am having way to much fun with you and Elena."

"Can touch her now."

"Well, the vervain keeps me out of her head, maybe that's not my target. Or even Elena at all. Believe it or not, Stefan, some girls don't need my persuasion. Some girls just can't resist my good looks, my style my charm and my unflinching ability to listen to Taylor Swift."

I walk into the living room where I see Jenna insulting the tv.

"Scum ball. Scum bucket."

"Who are you talking to?" I ask her confused but with a smile as Elena and I enter the room and Elena gives her a look at say she also wants to know.

"Him. The news guy, also known as Logan "Scum" Fell. Did your mom ever tell you why I moved away from Mystic Falls?" She asks Elena but I got what she meant with that very clearly.

"Oh, no way. You and him?" I ask her because it was obvious by the tone in her voice, she hated him.

"He's cute."

"He is not cute. There's nothing cute about him." She laughs and I smile at her as I prepare to leave for work.

"Have a nice day."

"You too Sofia. What are you doing with that?" She asks I believe to Elena as I walk out.

"I can't believe it, you have to go to this party." Kate tells me as we talk over at the café. Kate was always very excited about parties and apparently everyone in this town.

"What people wear to these parties anyway? A ball gown? Cocktail dress?" Something I wish my mother was here; she would already have a parade of dresses prepared. Did I just admit this? Ok I need to go to the doctor.

"The second option. You will be fine, believe me."

"What is that suppose to mean?"

"Go with the red. Red equals sex." I hear the voice of Marie over the phone. She was like me in a lot of ways. A few years younger than me but understands what it means to be like me or similar. She was like my little sister who I never thought I wanted.

"Maybe I don't want sex and since when do you think of sex."

"Please, Genevieve Sofia McCullough, you always have a hot date and honestly you are telling me sex isn't in your mind. Don't lie you are terrible at that and I don't even want to talk about the last part."

"Ok maybe there is some hot guys around town."

"I knew it."

"I would jump in bed with them but I think the red it too … red. I like the brown more, it's more classic but still not boring with the leather sandals, you want better?"

"And it show you tats. You are not covering them."

"Don't you think tattoos let the all classic part go away?" (The look will be as usual in my polyvore account)

"Have you seen Angelina Jolie. Of course not. It shows you bad girl side. Well not bad as in evil, bad as I in rebel."

"You speak like I have arms full with them and the last part I will choose to ignore. Hair?"

"Down. Like we did to that summer party. Now the lingerie."

"My favorite party."

"I know Victoria Secrets." I roll my eyes at her and after a while I end the phone call and I see my backs in the mirror and the dress and I take a deep breath. How am I covering up the scars

"Jenna." I tell her as we both come close to her as we hug. "You look lovely Jenna."

"Thank you so do you Sofia." She tells me with a smile and I look at Elena and Stefan who just enter. They are truly the poster of a cute teenage in love couple. Teens in love: the innocence of that. She raises her hand as a way to say hello and Stefan smiles at us.

I dance for two songs with some guys who asked me and when the last one had to talk with some friends and I didn't want to dance anymore so I decide to walk around where I found Elena and Stefan in a room.

"What is that?" I ask to the wall with a paper with names written and they turn to me.

"Hi Sofia. You look amazing"

"Hi Elena, you look lovely and you look very handsome yourself Stefan."

"Thank you. You look wonderful."

"Now that we pass the typical parties conversation let's go back to the real deal. So you are dating my sister." I tell him seriously but I was kidding. Half.

"Sofia." Elena says shocked and I smile at her.

"I am kidding Elena." She turns and then I look at Stefan trying to show him that some part of me wasn't joking.

"Ok. Back to the registry. The founding families in Mystic Falls welcome you to the inaugural founder's council celebration. Wow, look, it's the original guest registry. Look at all these familiar names- Sheriff William Forbes, Mayor Benjamin Lockwood. Is that Damon Salvatore? And, look, Stefan Salvatore." Elena says the last name confused. Wait? Stefan Salvatore?

"The original Salvatore brothers. Our ancestors. Tragic story, actually." Damon says entering with Caroline.

"We don't need to bore them with stories of the past."

"It's not boring, Stefan. I'd love to hear more about your family."

"Well, I'm bored. I want to dance. And Damon won't dance with me." Caroline says and I remember Emma, god she was such a bimbo. Sure Caroline was still young but she made me remember my mother so damn much. Expect the evil park of course. "Could I just borrow your date?" She asks Elena who looks uncertain of what to say.

"I don't really dance." Stefan tells her.

"Oh, sure he does. You should see him. Waltz, the jitterbug, the moonwalk. He does it all." Damon says. Why does he want to push Stefan into dancing with Caroline? And why am I imagining Stefan doing the moonwalk, god that would be funny.

"You wouldn't mind, would you, Elena?" Caroline asks her and I could feel Damon's eyes on me.

"It's up to Stefan."

Caroline ends us dragging him to the dance floor and it just the three of us and Damon apologizes to Elena for something he was done. I wasn't paying too much attention because I was looking into the names trying to find my last name or some connection that my mother had to this town but I found nothing but the fact that Damon's and Stefan's name was there was so strange. I pass my finder to the names and I see a girl name Katherine Pierce under them. Something was not right in this story. Maybe I could just.

"The Salvatore name was practically royalty in this town. Until the war. There was a battle here." Damon says approaching me as Elena also came obviously wondering about the story as he breaks my thoughts.

"The battle of willow creek."

"Right." Damon says surprised just as I was because I remember Elena didn't liked story very much wish I adored.

"I know, we talked about it in class. Confederate soldiers fired on a church with civilians inside."

"What the history books left out was the people that were killed. They weren't there by accident. They were believed to be union sympathizers. So some of the founders on the confederacy side back then wanted them rounded up and burned alive. Stefan and Damon had someone they loved very much in that church. And when they went to rescue them, they were shot. Murdered in cold blood."

"Who was in the church that they wanted to save?" I say trying to figure it out then end of the tragic story.

"A woman, I guess. Doesn't it always come down to the love of a woman?" He says and I try not to give him a smile at this. Come on Sofia you are not the romantic type of girl. "What is your story?"

"Hum?"

"You're tattoos."

"Who said they have story?" I ask him with a changeling look.

"I know they do." At that moment someone very familiar enters the room and my blood stop running throw my veins.

"There are you." He tells me and Elena looks at me confused. You honestly thought I wouldn't find you?

"Oh Erik. This is my sister Elena, and this is Damon Salvatore." Try something and see what happens.

"Please meeting you." Damon says and I could feel some coldness in his voice wish I probably confused because it didn't make any sense

"ErikLehnsherr." He says and then turns to me with a smile. "Would you dance with me?"

"Of course." I say with a smile, leaving with him.

Our bodies were pressed together as we dance and the memories came back to me. The many moments I found our bodies together like this. How we can dance knowing each other steps so easily. Only if it was that easy.

"What is on your mind?"

"Why don't you get out of mine?"

"You know very well I won't do it."

"Seriously Erik what do you want for me?"

"I have a job I needed help with."

"They look so cute together." Caroline comments as she looks at Stefan and Elena and then turns to Sofia who is dancing with Erik. "She is very pretty." She says with jealousy.

"Honey pretty doesn't even describe it."

"You find her attractive?" She asks ever more jealous and Damon gives her a look like she is crazy for him not to think otherwise. "She is totally going to sleep with him. You can see it by the look on his face. Maybe they already did. They got chemistry."

"Don't talk, please."